Gala Attendee
Rory MacNeil (Brian Cox) es un escocés cascarrabias que abandona a regañadientes su querida y apartada isla de Vallasay para viajar a San Francisco en busca de tratamiento médico para su enfermedad terminal. Al mudarse con su hijo, al que hace quince años que no ve, la vida de Rory sufrirá una transformación a través del vínculo que establece con su nieto, justo cuando menos se lo espera.
Reporter
There is nothing left of the American dream on the Nine--a solemn destination, a resting place for those who have relinquished the dream. Modesto is a city that lies in California's Central Valley, a region devastated during America's Great Depression. Modesto's notorious South Ninth Street ("the Nine") is a no man's land where the rules of polite society do not apply. The people living along the Nine form a ravaged micro community whose Darwinian existence is a day to day hustle, and survival is by any means necessary.